Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What Happened to the Counsellor, sentence 33

"Dear me, what have they been erecting here?" he cried, as he caught sight of the East gate, which in olden times used to stand at the end of East Street.

Who acts: people, moon · What happens: have, erect, cry, catch, use, stand · To what, where: sight, East gate, end · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What Happened to the Counsellor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people, moon), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Dear	punct
2	Dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 Dear	iobj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 have	punct
5	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	6 have	obj
6	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 Dear	conj
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 erecting	nsubj
8	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 erecting	aux
9	erecting	erect	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 have	ccomp
10	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 erecting	advmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 erecting	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 erecting	punct
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 cried	nsubj
14	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 erecting	parataxis
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 caught	punct
16	as	as	SCONJ	_	18 caught	mark
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 caught	nsubj
18	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 cried	conj
19	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 caught	obj
20	of	of	ADP	_	23 gate	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 gate	det
22	East	East	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 gate	compound
23	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 sight	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 used	punct
25	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 used	obj
26	in	in	ADP	_	28 times	case
27	olden	olden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 times	amod
28	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 used	obl
29	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 gate	acl:relcl
30	to	to	PART	_	31 stand	mark
31	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 used	xcomp
32	at	at	ADP	_	34 end	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 end	det
34	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 stand	obl
35	of	of	ADP	_	37 Street	case
36	East	East	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 Street	compound
37	Street	Street	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 end	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Dear	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	have in a quote	present					tree rules
2	erect in a quote	participle · progressive	people		here		tree rules
3	cry speech: express	past	moon				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	catch	past	moon	sight of the East gate			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Theme
5	use	past		the East gate		time	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent which=Theme clause=Eventuality
6	stand	to-infinitive				at the end of East Street	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at end=Location
7	sight			the East gate			nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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